Spring 2019 Specialty Board Summaries
Introduction As Chair of ABIM Council, the ABIM governance body that oversees the various discipline-specific Specialty Boards, I am very pleased to share with you a summary of…
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By Doctors, For Doctors: Help Shape the Future of Board Certification
Posted on“We’re a profession of service, and I think we are very familiar with the concept of serving our patients, serving society. This is similar to that, but this…
What do physicians have to say about the Knowledge Check-In in 2019?
Posted onThis spring, more than 750 physicians took the Knowledge Check-In (KCI) to meet their assessment requirement of ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. This year, the KCI rolled…
ABIM/ASCO Panel Discussion at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting
Posted onMore than 40,000 individuals attended the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting on May 31-June 4 in Chicago, and ABIM staff were onsite engaging with…
A Joint Message from ABIM and Cardiology Specialty Societies
Posted onLeaders at the four major cardiovascular specialty societies — the American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography…
PODCAST: ACC & ABIM talk Collaborative Maintenance Pathway
Posted onAt this year’s American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting—held March 16-18, in New Orleans—ABIM and ACC launched the new Collaborative Maintenance Pathway (CMP) for certified cardiologists who…
The Transformation of the American Board of Internal Medicine
Posted onDr. Olakunle Akinboboye is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Sleep Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University,…
Board Certified Internists, how do we love thee?
Posted onThis Valentine’s Day, we wanted to show our Board Certified Internists some love. Just how do we love thee? Let us count the ways…. Showing our diplomates some…
“Serving the Profession”: Join ABIM’s New Item Writing Task Force
Posted onThe American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) established the Item-Writing Task Forces to help Exam Committees keep up with the increased demand for content associated with the new…
Reinstating a Lapsed Certificate using the Knowledge Check-In
Posted onIn 2018, ABIM announced that physicians who let a certificate lapse can meet their assessment requirement by passing two consecutive Knowledge Check-Ins within a two-year period. This allows…